Just saw three consecutive Man from UNCLE episodes with Trek guests: "The Arabian Affair" with the late Michael Ansara and Robert Ellenstein (inexplicably, since he was playing a character two decades older and wearing bad old-age makeup), "The Tigers Are Coming Affair" with Jill Ireland and Lee Bergere, and the rather incoherent "The Deadly Toys Affair" with Arnold Moss and John Hoyt, though Angela Lansbury was the main guest.

Last week I got Season 1 of Adventures of Superman, starring George Reeves. It's black and white, released around 1952 or 1953. In "The Runaway Robot", I recognized John Harmon as a two-bit crook. He was the Rodent who kills himself with McCoy's phaser in TOS: The City on the Edge of Forever, and Tepo in TOS: A Piece of the Action.

This episode starred Russell Johnson as the boss bad guy. Johnson was veteran of science fiction films during the 50s and 60s, but most famous as The Professor on Gilligan's Island. Apparently he wanted to do Star Trek, but never got a chance.

Me-TV played a few episodes of Mod Squad the other week. This show already has a strong Trek connection, with one of the stars being Tige (Bob the Discount Klingon) Andrews, and one of the producers being Harve Bennett. But in addition to that, one episode featured William (Nilz Baris) Schallert as Sammy Davis Jr.'s boss in the priesthood, and another had Warren (Rojan) Stevens out to settle an old score with Vincent Price.

^Well, I do know this wasn't Ireland's final UNCLE appearance. She was married to David McCallum at the time, and thus made several guest appearances, though only the first two were as the same character.

EDIT: Oops, a couple of posts snuck in before me. Spoilers! I'm only up to early season 2 so far.

^Well, I do know this wasn't Ireland's final UNCLE appearance. She was married to David McCallum at the time, and thus made several guest appearances, though only the first two were as the same character.

EDIT: Oops, a couple of posts snuck in before me. Spoilers! I'm only up to early season 2 so far.

I don't know... what was great about Price was that he could be menacing, debonair, and snidely funny all at once -- like Colicos as Kor, DeLancie as Q, or Robinson as Garak. There wasn't much room for humor in Kodos.